José Mourinho’s tactics drew the sting from the home side in a much-hyped Premier League encounter that neither he nor Jürgen Klopp could afford to lose
If the world was watching, as the hype would suggest, then Liverpool and Manchester United owe a lot of apologies. The biggest ticket the Premier League has to sell to a global audience did not include incident or entertainment at Anfield and Jürgen Klopp looked beyond convenient excuses to lament his team’s responsibility for the non-event.
“When you are in a good moment you can play much better and it should not depend on how the opposition defends because the spaces are always similar,” he said. “Our problem was that we didn’t see them tonight.” When his adrenaline levels subside in a few days’ time, however, the Liverpool manager may place greater value on a point and a first clean sheet of the Premier League season than a below-par display he said stemmed from the fact his team “couldn’t get rid of the hectic”.
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